Article 19: Government launches web crime unit!

ALERT - IRAN

19 November 2009

Government launches web crime unit

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Global Campaign for Free Expression

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17 November 2009 -

The government of Iran has bolsteredits censorship regime with the launch of a new Web Crime Unit tasked withpolicing the internet for 'insults and lies". The launch comes just monthsafter the disputed election and the so called 'Green Revolution' which sawdemonstrators utilise the web as an important tool for organising. The 12 member Web Crime Unit will search the web ostensibly for cybercrimes and report them directly to the Chief Prosecutor. Although vowing tofight cyber crime in general, the Unit's political nature is indicated byits emphasis on "insults and lies" - a term often used by the judiciary todescribe opposition statements.

Iran's Green Revolution in 2009 showed that the web is one of the last remaining bastions of free expression. Before, during and after the elections, opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, aswell as other reformists demonstrated the web's potential to communicate views, inspire debate and organise support. The new Unit is the latest attempt to suppress the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive. It also shows the Iranian authorities' attempts to isolatethe Iranian media and academic community from its global counterparts, and curtail cross-cultural dialogues and debates, with the view of maintaining tight control over information, ideas, and opinions. "This new Web Crime Unit is clearly censorship and intimidation under the pretence of fighting crime," says Dr Agnès Callamard, ARTICLE 19 Executive Director. "If the Iranian government arrests bloggers, activists and journalists, they are not only attacking individuals, but also undermining the rights of their fellow Iranians and others to hear the experiences and opinions of others." The Islamic Republic of Iran has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and is therefore obliged as a matter of international law to respect the right to freedom of expression asguaranteed by Article 19.

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Ahmadinejad Government has confiscated the Noble Peace Prize of Shirin Ebadi !

All Shirin Ebadi's international awards including Noble Peace Prize were stollen by Ahmadinejads Government !

shirin Ebadi:
Recently i have noticed that the Islamic Republic have blocked all my bank accounts,which was personal. Even the retirement salary from my 15 years judgement service which i was receiving was blocked.More important , the personal accounts of my husband and his retirement sallary was also confiscated. this is interesting because my husband has nothing to do with my activities and his job is something else and retirement salary can't be confiscated by law or any other condition.
Ms. shirin Ebadi's family members including sister bank account have been blocked by the Islamic Republic government. All her international awards including the Noble Peace Prize was confiscated from her home with the order of Ahmadinejad's government and by the agents.

In an interview with German Radio (DW) she spoke about the behavior of this government towards her family members.

On the question about threat against her, she replied:
the Iranian Government has increased threats against me , against my security and against my life from one and a half year ago,and also tried to restrict my work. As such, they have closed the office of the "Association of Human Rights defenders in Iran". Several people as 'Basiji" attacked my office, I called police , the police were just laughing and looking at the situation and many other restrictions. And recently the government have announced that i have to pay back to 400,000 taxes on the Noble Peace Prize award to the government .this is while according to the tax law the awards are exempted from government taxes.
They have also put pressure on my sister, brother and my husband, but of course, they have filed complaint against the government.They have no right to put pressure or threaten my relatives because of my relation with them. what was more interesting was that ; the ministry of information has sent two of its employees to speak with my sister and to convince or threaten her to move out from the building because i also live there and they have told her , if she won't change her house they will make trouble for her childerens who are students and they have also received the lay off notice from her employer the Ministry of Health, this is all because she lives with me in a building.

They have banned my husbands travel to abroad,and this is all to force me to stop my human rights activities which is of course a vain imagination. Because all the work that i do is limited to the laws of Iran and i will never stop that.And i would like to explain that ;in my husbands bank safe box , i had a few of my own personal awards including the Noble Peace Prize and "Legion de honour " , a free expression ring which i had received from the "German Association of journalists " and several other awards were in that safe.adding to that is the building of the Association of Human Rights Defenders which i bought with the Noble Peace Prize money which is closed with the order of the government and the Noble peace Prize is also confiscated by the government.
I must applause to all the illegal (Shirin Ebadi:above the law) conducts of the government of Iran that confiscates the international awards.

when the ministers of this regime can have fake degrees or fake hounourary diploma from Oxford University what else you can expect?! and you know the worse things, the head of judiciary power does nothing but support this government !

Interviw by : Jamshid Faroughi-DW

Editing by : Dawood Khodabakhsh-DW

IRAN WATCH CANADA warns the UN about the Islamic Republic regime taking Iranian people as hostage!

Iranian people need you now ! There are hundereds of unreported murdering and killing of innocent Iranian people who simply do not want this regime. Regime officials warn the oppositions , either to stop criticizing the regime or bear the consequences that for example their son or daughter may vanish or may be killed by car crash or something else!???? No joking , imagin that... if prosecutor of the justice system will threaten you to stop your opposition or else you , your son/daughter and brother will be killed .....what would you do / what can you do/ you feel helpless and traped / you feel like being a hostage/ and you know what? , it happens / it really happens and happened for many familys. No wonder this regime is the number one enemy of the journalists , because they are the only monitoring body and investigators of the crime commited by the regime agents.
Since 1980 right after the revolution this regime has carried out terrorist activities inside and outside of Iran and as a result many dissident have been killed or murdered by the regime mobs.
Many of the regime thugs savegery shown by Iranian citizen journalists through youtube is the only documented material available for all to see. To see what they do with peaceful demonstrators. This is not the middle age, or 18th century era, this is the age of human rights revolution and post modern era where the information technology made our world smaller .
I dont know what more i can do for my country and people who are the hostage of this regime.
What can we do with the officials of this regime, ha....?

Just tears can wash my anger,
The best anger management.

Everyone who knows about education , respects human rights!

Political forecast in Iran : "Hurricane Neda" will hit Islamic Republic hard !

Mohammad Khatami: The movement for change in Iran is very deep and wide !

Mohammad Khatami former president and a protestant style reformist and the Luther of Iran in his last speech called for the change in the political system and the change in election system . Mr. khatami said: The election is under question by many people,this question won't fade away by ignoring it, by calling the people as triator or suppressing people the question won't go away,the Iranian movement isn't a sudden movement .... and it can't be destroyed by fear ,but it is a very deep and wide movement .

Rasayee one of regime propagandist speaking in Ghazvin University and student protest! This is the university's situation all over Iran.

A poster for December 7 national student day, call for another nationwide protest. What Islamic Republic regime can do?

As protest grow,Islamic republic regime becoms smaller!

109 worldwide human rights organizations have supported the voice of the protest in Iran and have heard the people of Iran and in solidarity jointly signed a statement asking UN to condemn Iran for violation of human rights.

This is a great victory for Iranian youth, women and people in general.

Organizations from many countries including Palestine have signed the petition and urged UN to condemn Iran for violating the rights of its citizenz.

Although the regime of coup d'etat continues to suppress the peaceful protest in Iran and Khamenei is showing sign of deafness and blindness for doing nothing about all these injustices, then must prepare itself for what may come in the future as it has come on 1978-79 .

In the meantime Iranian students from all over Iran are preparing for yet another nationwide protest on December 7 the national student day .

It seems this is the slogan , since the regime and Khamenei continue to ignor the people:
No justice No peace
And let it be.....As the protest grow , Islamic republic regime becoms smaller!

Iran Watch Canada calls for investigate on the death of the doctor of "Kahrizak" prison!

Doctor Ramin Pourandarjani 26 years of age was serving his compulsary military service in the clinic of police forces. Report indicated that he died on Tuesday while in his resting bed in the police clinic due to heart attack.The news given by the officials to his family was that ; he died of heart attack in his sleep.

Mr. Pourandarjani was working in the clinic in the contraversial " Kahrizak" prison where many of young protesters died, tortured ,raped and buried secretly later. Mr. Pourandarjani was the doctor who examined a young boy named Roholamini two days befor his death.Mohsen Roholamini was son of one of the officials and the prison officials didn't know about him and they thought they were dealing with another ordinary protester , but it was different and this death caused headache for the regime.

Mr. pourandarjani after visiting Roholamini reported that he had head injury and because of his report he was arrested and was detained for few days and was released but was under threat and intimidation and investigation and finally he lost his life under suspicious circumstances.

Dr. pourandarjani died because he knew so much about "Kahrizak" prison.

This poor doctor was just serving his military service and the Kahrizak prison officials took advantage from this apparently very smart and intelligent young man who becom a doctor not only for his family and for the country .

IRAN WATCH CANADA calls for the investigation to the death of Mr. Ramin Pourandarjani and Mr. Roholamini and all the young people who have lost their lives in Kahrizak prison .

If the father of Mohsen Roholamini can keep silence about the crime against his son and the murderers but the IRAN WATCH CANADA can't and calls for a full investigation of "Kahrizak " prison and asks the UN human rights council to investigate about this crimes against humanity.

Iranian people expect his Excelency Ban Ki- Moon visit to Iran and express UN's concern about violation of human rights in Iran

Shirin Ebadi the president of the Association of Human Rights Defenders in Iran and the Noble Peace Prize winner has requested his excelency Ban Ki-Moon the secretary General of UN to travel to Iran and see the violation of human rights by the Islamic Republic with his own eyes.

His excelency Ban Ki-Moon can meet with Mr. Musavi, Khatami and Karoubi or ayatollah Montazeri and speak with them about their situation and and their freedom of speech, expression and opinions.

Mr. Ban Ki-Moon can visit the Evin prison, meet with prisoners , especially prisoners who are and were political personalities in the reform government of Khatami.

Why not? Is this a big demands from the secretary General of the UN by people of Iran who are in the forefront of struggle for freedom in the world today.

I think not.

National Oil Refinery workers staged protest and demanded for their unpaid sallary! major company workers are join green movement!

It seems slowly the major company workers particularly the oil workers and bus transit workers are joining the green movement.

Tehran Emrooz has reported that more than 300 workers of Abadan oil refinery has staged protest for their three months unpaid sallary.The report added that; the officials in the Abadan oil refinery has told workers that they are working under private contractor and not the refinery sallary system.

Link to this report:

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/11/096124.php

Shirin Ebadi: An impartial doctor should check the body of Ehsan Fatahian before he is buried!

Shirin Ebadi the Iranian Noble Peace Prize winner and the president of the Association of Human Rights Defenders in Iran requested from the family members of Ehsan to call an impartial doctor to check the body of their son and to find out if he has infact died earlier due to the torture inside the prison. she added: I dont know; how can a judge who has ordered for the execution can sleep at night.

This really makes everyone sick not only from the regime that lies or cheat the election but also from the Islamic judiciary system.

In the meantime a protest against the execution of Ehsan Fatahian is going to take place in the city of Sanandaj today.